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On June 30th 1966, Mike Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York. At 16, Tyson’s mother passed away and boxing manager Cus D’Amato became his legal guardian. In his amateur career, Tyson won gold medals at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, going on to make his professional debut at age 18 in 1985. Early in his professional career, he put together a winning streak and quickly gained the attention of the mainstream media. In 1986, he became the youngest heavyweight champion in history at 20 years and four months, taking the title from Trevor Berbick. He was the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990, simultaneously holding titles from WBA, WBC and IBF.
The home fighter was stunned, looking helplessly at his team. He once again came unstuck against the hard-hitting southpaw, and looked a shadow of the fighter who knocked out 14 of his first 15 opponents.
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While this sort of flash snowstorm would encourage some to opt for an easier day on the treadmill, Zhang had no issues making the 20-minute drive from his home in Bloomfield to get in his work with head trainer Shaun George.
In 2003, Mike Tyson’s boxing career was coming to an end. When he stepped into the ring against Clifford Ettienne, however, something was different. While Iron Mike was able to dispatch his opponent without breaking a sweat, he was sporting a new tattoo on his face.
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site in yahoo.com 2021, Paradigm Sports Management – the company Pacquaio signed an exclusive management deal with a year prior – filed a lawsuit against him, alleging he in bad faith breached the contract having two management companies negotiating simultaneously for boxing matches.
On February 12, 2007, Pacquiao announced his campaign for a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives to represent the 1st District of South Cotabato province running as a candidate of the Liberal Party faction under Manila mayor Lito Atienza. Pacquiao, said he was persuaded to run by the local officials of General Santos, hoping he would act as a bridge between their interests and the national government. Ultimately Pacquiao was forced to run under the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (KAMPI), a pro-Arroyo political party by the courts. Pacquiao was defeated in the election by incumbent Rep. Darlene Antonino-Custodio of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), who said, “More than anything, I think, people weren’t prepared to lose him as their boxing icon.”
As a result, Tyson was disqualified from the fight, fined more than $3 million, and had his boxing license suspended (though it was reinstated a year later.) He later tried to explain why he’d bitten Holyfield, saying at a press conference:
Joyce looked to come out of the blocks quicker in the third but for all his intent Zhang remained more than a match for him, landing another enormous left hook to prompt gasps from the crowd, who were also being reminded of their man’s notoriously-tough chin.
The Indian Bengali Rabindranath Tagore attacked the European colonialists. A number of Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army sympathised with the cause of the Boxers, and in 1994 the Indian military returned a bell looted by British soldiers in the Temple of Heaven to China.
Perhaps one of the least surprising Mike Tyson facts is his wandering eye. But according to him, so did one of his ex-wives. Tyson wrote in his autobiography that his first wife, Robin Givens, had an affair with movie star Brad Pitt.
Buster Douglas went down in sports lore as a prize fighter who defied the odds to pull off one of the biggest upsets in sports history. Among the honors was a cover photo on an issue of Sports Illustrated with the title “Rocky Lives!,” after the popular film series about a similarly underestimated boxing hero. For Tyson, though he retained a menacing aura for years afterwards, “the mystique of the untouchable, invincible ‘Baddest Man on the Planet’ had been shattered.” Tyson himself knew as much, stating after he ended his career by losing to unheralded Kevin McBride in 2005, “My career has been over since 1990.” The fight is often ranked among the biggest upsets in sports history.
A 5-foot-1 bootblack from Negros Occidental province named Francisco Guilledo – who fought under the name Pancho Villa – became the first world boxing champion from Asia in 1923. Noted as much for his brown skin in newspaper accounts as he was for his whirlwind punching style, Villa won the world flyweight championship with a stunning upset knockout of Welsh puncher Jimmy Wilde, and died of a tooth infection before he could be beaten for the title.